Open AccessVisegrad countries and COVID-19: is the coronavirus pandemic a VUCA phenomenon?
Author(s) -
Stefan Lehrner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przegląd europejski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-6023
pISSN - 1641-2478
DOI - 10.31338/1641-2478pe.1.21.6
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , acronym , ambiguity , phenomenon , coronavirus , political science , business , computer science , medicine , virology , epistemology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , outbreak , programming language
This article will examine whether the Visegrad Group countries (V4) are moving closer together or further apart in this COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve that, the respective COVID-19 measures taken by governments in March and April 2020 in the V4 countries will be analysed using the VUCA model. VUCA is an acronym, and it includes four English terms: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Using the VUCA model, a Framework of VUCA Factors has been created in this article, which can be used as a basic model to further identify innovative leadership strategies during pandemic situations.